Reclaiming Catholic Intimacy

In this episode we are joined by Martha. Martha shares with us her experiences talking with siblings and parents about NFP and Fertility Awareness. Join us to discuss how we can best approach these conversations within our own families. 

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In this week's episode, Yolanda joins us again to discuss one of our most asked for topics, talking to your doctor about NFP. We share our hilarious bad examples of what we've done when talking to our doctors and share some tips for the next time you are asked the "So what do you want to do for birth control?" question. 

We also discuss a great resource for doctors and medical professionals: https://www.factsaboutfertility.org/

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We are joined by Peggy Murray in today's episode who is a wife, mother, Symptothermal Method instructor, and an overall amazing woman! Peggy gives us some great ideas and tips for keeping the conversation open, honest, and comfortable with children of all ages about Natural Family Planning and Theology of the Body. 

We talk about a few resources in the episode, so check them out if you are interested!

Theology of the Body books for all ages from TOBET: https://tobet.org/product-category/bookstore/

Teenstar program: http://www.teenstar.org/ 

Endow Youth Studies: https://endow-groups.myshopify.com/collections/youth-studies

Theology of the Body online parent/student study program from Ascension Press: https://ascensionpress.com/products/you-life-love-and-the-theology-of-the-body-student-pack

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We are joined by Janessa Nufable to discuss talking to your friends about NFP. 

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I'm joined by Joe Nufable for this episode where we talk about prayer within your marriage (and making it a part of your foreplay). We touch on desirability, redefining the word foreplay, and suggestions for engaged couples and those who are single. 

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Today we chat with Dn. Tim Roberto from the Diocese of Oakland on discovering God's love through spousal intimacy. Hint: talk about it!

If you're not married, don't worry there's some awesome nuggets for you too!

We touch a a tiny bit on the Theology of the Body (TOB) in this episode. For more info, resources, and courses on TOB, check out https://tobinstitute.org/

Charting Toward Intimacy is sponsored by the Diocese of Oakland. 

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In this episode we are joined by two guests who share their personal stories with NFP. 

Rose shares how NFP helped her through her struggle with infertility and helped her have her daughter. 

Jorge shares about his reversion to the Catholic Church and how his discovery of the Theology of the Body lead to learning about NFP and how he fell in love with the practice as he brought it to his marriage. 

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There are many things we wish we knew about NFP before we started! Yolanda joins us in this episode to talk about some of the different methods of NFP and how it would have been so helpful to know that they all existed. We also touch on how some women change to different methods throughout their NFP journey. 

If you feel like your method isn't working well for you, check out some other methods. The list below is not exhaustive, these are just the methods we spoke the most about in this episode. 

Symptothermal:

https://www.symptopro.org/

https://ccli.org/

Marquette:

https://www.marquette.edu/nursing/natural-family-planning-model.php

Billings Ovulation Method:

https://billings.life/en/

Creighton Model:

https://www.creightonmodel.com/

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Oh hi there! You have found the first ever episode of Charting Toward Intimacy. Guess what, I've learned a lot since I started this podcast and some of the information in this episode isn't exactly correct. I'd love for you to take a look at some of the more recent episodes of the podcast and the updated version of this episode with the same name at episode 117 (Just search in your podcast player).

Thanks for understanding that we're all human and we all grow and learn!

Best,

Ellen Holloway, Host of Charting Toward Intimacy

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Welcome to Charting Toward Intimacy where we are expanding the natural family planing conversation! Listen in for an introduction on what we plan to do here.

Launching in July 20 for NFP awareness week! Expect episodes every other Monday, but in honor of our launch and NFP week, three episodes will be out next week!

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